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To The American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman is a autobiographical book written by Lucy Thompson or Che-ne-wah Weitch-ah-wah, a Yurok woman.[1] It is a collection of stories about the Yurok people of Northern California. It was written with the intention to preserve the Yurok peoples culture.[2] During the creation of this book her people, the Yurok native american's, were on the brink of collapse.[3]Lucy Thompson became the first California Native American woman to publish a book after the first publication in 1916.[4]It was written in Wiyot Territory, which is now known as Myrtletown, outside the city of Eureka, California .[4] The book received the American Book Award decades later in 1992.[5][6]

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Thompson provides an autobiographical view of the intricacies of life within the Yurok Tribe at the dawn of the twentieth century. She also describes Yurok practices that effectively maintained the region’s ecological and social stability[1].

Chapters [7] (Possible area for improvement by future editors, including summations of themes found in each chapter.)

Preface

  1. General History; Bill McGarvey's Store
  2. Creation of the World
  3. The Wandering Tribe
  4. Traditions of the Ancient White People
  5. Time and Names
  6. Death and the Spirit Land
  7. Through the Pearly Gates of Heaven
  8. Burial Customs
  9. The Indian Devil
  10. The White Deer Skin Dance
  11. The Lodge Dance
  12. Our Christ
  13. The Sampson of the Klamath Indians
  14. The Deluge of the Klamath Indians
  15. The High Priests
  16. Laws of the Fish Dam
  17. The Ancient Houses
  18. War of the Klamath Indians
  19. The Marriage Laws
  20. The Two Famous Athletes
  21. Pec-wan Colonel
  22. A Narrative of the Humboldt Indians
  23. Romance of a Wild Indian
  24. The Prophet that Failed
  25. Teachings of the Klamath Indians on Child Birth
  26. The Wild Indian of Pec-wan
  27. How the Rich Tried to be a Talth
  28. The Slaves
  29. The Wild Indian of Mo-reck
  30. How a Cor-tep Girl had her Wish Granted
  31. Our Tobacco
  32. Our Mermaids
  33. Fairy Tales

Publication

First published in Eureka, California by Cummins Print Shop in 1916[1], it was republished in 1991 by Julian Lang, a tribal scholar as well as a traditional singer and dancer of the Karuk tribe[8]. The 1991 edition includes a foreword by Peter E. Palmquist. The primary differences between editions is spelling and grammatical fluidity [8].


Reception

There has been some critical response to the choice of Lang's republication. Some Yurok members feel it is a job that should have been performed by a Yurok college graduate [8].

"Negative comments had four foci: Palmquist is not an expert on northwestern California Indians; Lang is a Karuk, not a Yurok; the book contains many photographs of non-Yurok; and many of the newly-added illustrations have been poorly or incorrectly labelled." Arnold R. Pilling [8]

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"during March of 1992, I had a chance to talk to a few Yurok about the new edition of To the American Indian. Negative comments had four foci: Palmquist is not an expert on northwestern California Indians; Lang is a Kamk, not a Yurok; the book contains many photographs of non-Yurok; and many of the newly-added illustrations have been poorly or incorrectly labelled. The choice of Lang as the second present�day introducer of Thompson's book is a some�what complex issue. Some Yurok criticize the choice of Lang, stating that this book is about the Yurok. It was suggested that the volume would have been much better introduced by one of the several college-graduate Yurok."

(Ivy, possibly go through this paragraph, paraphrase it, and source it to make it a follow-up to what I have above.)

References

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(1) https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1657&context=ess Review of Lucy Thompson [Che-Na-Wah Weitch-Ah-Wah]. To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman. (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1991) xxx, 292 pp., Bataille, G. M. (1993). A review of "To the American Indian" by Lucy ThompsonJaPhiDiMi (talk) 03:30, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

  1. ^ a b c Thompson, Lucy (©1991.). To the American Indian : reminiscences of a Yurok woman /. Berkeley, CA :: Heyday Books in conjunction with P.E. Palmquist,. ISBN 978-0-930588-47-2. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  2. ^ "Lucy Thompson on Native American Authors". ipl: Information You Can Trust. Retrieved 2022-03-09.
  3. ^ Thompson, Lucy (1991). To the American Indian: reminiscences of a Yurok woman. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books in conjunction with P.E. Palmquist. ISBN 978-0-930588-47-2. OCLC 24602841.
  4. ^ a b McCure, Elizabeth (03/02/2022). """Light is the normal course of events, darkness is only a temporary interruption": Lessons from Lucy Thompson."". {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ "Lucy Thompson on Native American Authors". ipl: Information You Can Trust. Retrieved 2022-03-09.
  6. ^ "Lucy Thompson", Wikipedia, 2021-10-25, retrieved 2022-03-09
  7. ^ Thompson, Lucy (1916, 1991). To The American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman. Eureka California: Cummins Print Shop. p. 7. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
  8. ^ a b c d Pilling, Arnold (03/01/2022). "To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman. Lucy Thompson. Foreword by Peter E. Palmquist. Introduction by Julian Lang. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1991, xxx -1- 292 pp., 42 illustrations, 2 maps, index, $12.95 (paper)" (PDF). escholarship.org. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); line feed character in |title= at position 43 (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)

(2) https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/hjsr/vol1/iss42/8/ McClure, Elizabeth. 2020. "“Light is the normal course of events, darkness is only a temporary interruption”: Lessons from Lucy Thompson." Humboldt Journal of Social Relations 1 (42): 108-115.

(3) https://escholarship.org/content/qt39z7q5cf/qt39z7q5cf.pdf?t=krni22&v=lg Pilling, A. R. (1992). Thompson: To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, 14(2). Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/39z7q5cf

(4) https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9917457223503681Thompson, Lucy. To the American Indian : Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books in conjunction with P.E. Palmquist, 1991.

(5) https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucar013-002.pdf Kroeber, A. L. and Gifford, E.W. 1949. World Renewal: A Cult System of Native Northwest California. Anthropological Records, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 1-156.

(6) https://www.google.com/books/edition/To_the_American_Indian/o5QLAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Thompson, L. (1916). To the American Indian. United States: L. Thompson. JaPhiDiMi (talk) 23:59, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

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